Publications

In press

  • Article
    Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation

    The Mga Formation of the Neva Lowland (St. Petersburg region): A Review

    Ruchkin, M. V., Sheetov, M. V., Pleshivtseva, E. S., Ludikova, A. V., Taldenkova, E. E., Ovsepyan, Ya. S., Kosintsev, P. A., Merkuliev, A. V.
  • Article
    Quaternary International

    The new key sections of the Last Interglacial transgression in the Eurasian Arctic (Eastern White Sea): paleoenvironmental reconstructions and interregional correlations

    Zaretskaya, N. E., Taldenkova, Е. E., Ruchkin, M. V., Ovsepyan, Ya. S., Rudenko, O. V., Timofeeva, I. V.
  • Article
    Geomorfologiya i Paleogeografiya

    Glaciolacustrine sedimentary settings and the MIS2 palaeogeography of the eastern White Sea

    Zaretskaya, N. E., Vashkov, A. A., Baranov, D. V., Ruchkin, M. V., Nosova, O. Yu., Cherezova, A. A.

2025

  • Article
    Quaternary Science Reviews 360, 109244

    Paleohydrological changes in the eastern Baltic Sea during the Middle/Late Pleistocene transition and the Last Interglacial

    Ruchkin, M. V., Sheetov, M. V., Taldenkova, Е. E., Pushina, Z. V., Dudanova, V. I., Ovsepyan, Ya. S., Konstantinov, E. A., Nosevich, E. S., Mustafin, M. A.
  • Book
    St. Petersburg: LEMA

    Essays on the Quaternary geology of the Southern Ladoga Area and the Neva Lowland. Field guide for geological excursions of the XI All-Russian conference on Quaternary research, September 18–20, 2025 (in Russian)

    Sheetov, M. V., Biske, Y. S., Bagdasaryan, T. E., Dudanova, V. I., Ruchkin, M. V., Sumareva, I. V., Shukhvostov, R. S. (Ed. Nazarov D. V.)

2024

  • Article
    Doklady Earth Sciences 514, 244–248

    The Blake geomagnetic excursion recorded in the Mikulino Interglacial sediments of the Neva Lowland

    Dudanova, V. I., Veselovskiy, R. V., Ruchkin, M. V., Sheetov, M. V.
  • Article
    Journal of Quaternary Science 39, 745–764

    Stratigraphy and OSL chronology of the Middle–Upper Pleistocene sedimentary sequence and vegetation history during Late MIS6 – MIS5e in the Neva Lowland (St. Petersburg Region, Russia)

    Ruchkin, M. V., Nosevich, E. S., Sheetov, M. V., Brill, D.
  • Thesis
    Thesis for the Candidate Degree in Geography. St. Petersburg University

    Chronology and deposition conditions of the Mga marine interglacial formation in the Neva Lowland

    Ruchkin, M. V.
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2023

  • Article
    Geology and Geophysics 64, 595–606

    The Azas ice sheet and its role in the formation of Late Pleistocene ice-dammed lakes in southern Siberia: case study of Upper Kharal paleolake

    Novikov, I. S., Nazarov, D. V., Mikharevich, M. V., Gladysheva, A. S., Ruchkin, M. V., Prudnikov, S. G.
  • Article
    Doklady Earth Sciences 512, 1059–1064

    First data on the paleogeographical settings and chronology of the Last Interglacial on the Zimnii Coast of the White Sea

    Zaretskaya, N. E., Taldenkova, Е. E., Ovsepyan, Ya. S., Ruchkin, M. V., Baranov, D. V., Rudenko, O. V., Stepanova, A. Yu.

2022

  • Article
    Boreas 51, 402–425

    Evidence for the intrusion of marine Atlantic waters into the West Siberian Arctic during the Middle Pleistocene

    Nazarov, D. V., Nikolskaia, O. A., Gladysheva, A. S., Zhigmanovskiy, I. V., Ruchkin, M. V., Merkuljev, A. V., Thomsen, K. J.
  • Article
    Quaternary Science Reviews 289, 107614

    Lake Yamal, an ice-dammed megalake in the West Siberian Arctic during the Late Pleistocene, ∼60–35 ka

    Nazarov, D. V., Nikolskaia, O. A., Zhigmanovskiy, I. V., Ruchkin, M. V., Cherezova, A. A.
  • Article
    Izvestiya RAN. Seriya Geograficheskaya 86, 898–913

    The southeastern White Sea coast in the Late Pleistocene (in Russian)

    Zaretskaya, N. E., Baranov, D. V., Ruchkin, M. V., Lugovoy, N. N.
  • Article
    Quaternary International 632, 65–78

    Early Middle Weichselian in the White Sea and adjacent areas: Chronology, stratigraphy and palaeoenvironments

    Zaretskaya, N. E., Korsakova, O. P., Molodkov, A. N., Ruchkin, M. V., Baranov, D. V., Rybalko, A. E., Lugovoy, N. N., Merkuljev, A. V.

2021

  • Article
    Catena 205, 105445

    High-resolution analysis of the Likhvin loess–paleosol sequence (the central part of the East European Plain, Russia)

    Panin, P. G., Filippova, K. G., Bukhonov, A. V., Karpukhina, N. V., Kalinin, P. I., Ruchkin, M. V.
  • Article
    Doklady Earth Sciences 499, 639–642

    Cross-OSL and 14C dating of young subaerial peposits in the Sambia (Kaliningrad) Peninsula

    Shvarev, S. V., Zaretskaya, N. E., Ruchkin, M. V., Lugovoy, N. N., Zazovskaya, E. P., Subetto, D. A.

2020

  • Article
    Regional Geology and Metallogeny 82, 16–34

    Pleistocene marine formations of the lower Yenissei basin, Arctic Russia: OSL age, facial and paleontological characteristics (in Russian)

    Nazarov, D. V., Nikolskaia, O. A., Gladysheva, A. S., Zhigmanovskiy, I. V., Ruchkin, M. V., Merkuljev, A. V.

2015

  • Book
    St. Petersburg: VSEGEI

    State geological map of Russian Federation. Scale 1:1 000 000 (third generation). West Siberian seria. Quadrangle R-42, Yamal Peninsula. Explanatory notes (in Russian)

    Shishkin, M. A., Faybusovich, Y. E., Shkarubo, S. I., Nazarov, D. V., Abakumova, L. A., Borozdina, Y. A., Voronin, A. S., Gerasicheva, A. V., Gorelina, T. E., Zavarzina, G. A., Zinchenko, A. G., Zuykova, O. N., Kostin, D. A., Lang, E. I., Likhotin, V. G., Markina, T. V., Petrov, S. Y., Petrova, M. N., Pushka, D. V., Radchenko, M. S., Rubin, L. I., Seregin, S.V., Solonina, S. F., Sychev, S. N., Tortsov, Y. I., Bazhkova, S. F., Vasilenko, E. P., Ivanova, E. I., Perlov, D. K., Ruchkin, M. V., Stepanova, A. P.